Why Manipur’s Freedom Fighters Are Exposing India’s Dying Myth
- 13-Mar-2026
Read the news coming out of India’s northeast today, and you’ll realize that National Highway 202 is no longer just a road on a map. It’s the frontline of a collapsing empire. Honestly, you have to read the news twice just to wrap your head around it. When a handful of local Manipur freedom fighters […]
Manipur: Internet cut during protests in India’s violence-hit state
- 16-Nov-2024
GUWAHATI: Authorities in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur suspended internet and mobile services and imposed an indefinite curfew on Saturday in areas where protesters were besieging politicians’ homes over deadly inter-ethnic violence. In the latest deaths, security forces found three bodies believed to be members of the majority Meitei community in a river on […]
Ethnic violence in India’s Manipur escalates, six killed
- 08-Sep-2024
Six people, including one civilian, were killed as fresh violence broke out between two warring ethnic communities in the northeast Indian state of Manipur on Saturday, authorities said. The majority Meitei community and the tribal Kukis have clashed sporadically since last year after a court ordered the state government to consider extending special economic benefits […]
Thirteen killed in surge in fighting in India’s Manipur
- 05-Dec-2023
At least 13 people have been killed in gun battles in India’s northeastern Manipur, the latest clashes since ethnic violence erupted seven months ago, a state official and local media said. At least 200 people have been killed in Manipur state since fighting broke out in May between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and mainly […]
Manipur: India imposes curfew in strife-hit state
- 28-Sep-2023
India imposed curfew in the capital and some areas of its restive state of Manipur on Thursday, after scores of students were injured in violence following protests against the alleged abduction and murder of two students, authorities said. Ethnic violence has plunged the northeastern state bordering Myanmar into what many security experts describe as an […]
Rahul Gandhi blasts PM Modi over Manipur unrest
- 13-Aug-2023
Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has blasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for unrest in Manipur. Rahul Gandhi was addressing a public gathering in his constituency Wayanad, a day after the conclusion of the stormy monsoon session of Parliament. Women and children are dying over there, women are being molested and raped and the Prime […]
Manipur Violence And Modi
- 12-Aug-2023
The problems confronting Narendra Modi are mounting by the day just as Indian national elections are approaching. Modi is known for keeping his nerves during crises but the Armageddon-like situation that has developed in the eastern state of Manipur has the potential of rattling nerves of even the most strong-nerved. A long stretch of a […]
India: Modi govt faces no-confidence vote over Manipur unrest
- 26-Jul-2023
India’s parliament on Wednesday authorised a no-confidence vote against Narendra Modi’s government by an alliance of opposition parties, to force the prime minister to address in detail concerns about ethnic clashes in a northeastern state. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a clear majority of 301 members in the 542-seat lower house of parliament, so […]
Watch: Indian soldier molests woman in Manipur grocery store
- 25-Jul-2023
The BSF soldier was arrested after a complaint was filed against him.
Manipur sexual violence: Women burn down houses of two accused
- 21-Jul-2023
Furious women set fire to the houses of two Indian men accused of parading two women naked in Manipur state where months of ethnic clashes have left at least 120 dead, images showed Friday. A clip went viral Wednesday showing two women reported to be from the Kuki tribal group walking naked along a street […]